CARROLL COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: GEIGER, WILLIAM HERMAN (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 35

        WILLIAM HERMAN GEIGER, who represents a family that has lived in
Eastern Ohio for a century, is one of the leading educators of the state,
being superintendent of schools of Lisbon. His brother, Franklin Paul
Geiger, is an educator also, in Columbiana County, being superintendent of
schools at East Liverpool.
        William Herman Geiger was born near Malvern, in Carroll County,
Ohio, December 27, 1879. The farm where he was born and where he grew up is
now owned by his brother, Edwin C., and is the original Geiger homestead,
settled by his great-grandfather, John Jacob Geiger. This ancestor was a
native of Baden, Germany, and came to America in the early '20s of the last
century, settling on and improving the farm noted above in Carroll County,
where he spent the rest of his life. His son, John Paul Geiger, was born in
Baden, Germany, in 1818, and was about four years of age when brought to
this country. He also made farming his lifelong vocation, and died at his
farm near Malvern in January, 1892. His wife was Mary Magdalene Schneider,
who died near Malvern.
        John Jacob Geiger, father of William H. Geiger, was born near
Malvern, February 4, 1846, and spent all his life in that community, where
he was successfully engaged in farming until his death on May 5, 1918, at
the age of seventy-three. He was a very substantial and influential
citizen, an active worker in the Reformed Church, and always voted as a
republican. His wife, Mary Schory, was born near Minerva, December 4, 1847,
and is now seventy-seven years of age. Their children were seven in number,
the oldest being Franklin Paul Geiger, above mentioned as superintendent of
schools at East Liverpool; Anna S., deceased, was the wife of Clarence
Foltz, a farmer near Malvern; Edwin C., owns and operates the old
homestead; Emma died at the age of two years; William Herman is the fifth
in age; Mary Edna married Herbert A. Weaver, who is in the offices of the
Timken company, autombole accessory manufacturers at Canton, and John Q.,
the youngest, lives at home.
        William Herman Geiger's early associations were with the home farm
in the community where the Geigers have lived for four generations. He
attended rural schools in Brown Township of Carroll County, graduated from
the Malvern High School in 1898, and did his first work as a teacher in the
rural district of Stark County, where he continued teaching five years. In
the meantime he was spending his summers and other vacation periods
advancing his won education in Mount Union College, and in 1910 graduated
with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree from that college. He was a member
of the Alpha Tau Omego fraternity at Mount Union. In the meantime, from
1903 to 1907, he had been superintendent of schools at Waynesburg, Ohio,
and during 1907-08 he taught in the City High Schools at Alliance. In
1908-09 he was superintendent of schools in Lexington Township of Stark
County, doing this work while carrying his studies in college.
        After graduating Mr. Geiger spent the school year 1910-11 as a
teacher in the East Liverpool High School, and during 1911-12 did
post-graduate work in the University of Chicago, where he received his
Master of Arts degree in June, 1912. While at the University of Chicago he
was elected a member of the teachers' fraternity, Chi Delta Kappa. Mr.
Geiger was superintendent of schools in Caldwell, in Noble County, from
1913 to 1917, and since the latter years has been superintendent of the
city schools at Lisbon. Lisbon has three schools and a staff of
twenty-eight teachers, the scholarship enrollment being about one thousand.
        Mr. Geiger is well known in educational circles, being a member of
the Columbiana County Teachers Association, the Columbiana County School
Masters Club, the Northeastern Ohio Teachers' Association, the Ohio State
Teachers Association and the National Educational Association. He is a
member of the Lisbon Kiwanis Club, is a republican, is an elder in the
First Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Noble Lodge No. 459, Free
and Accepted Masons, at Caldwell, and Cumberland Chapter No. 116, Royal
Arch Masons, at Caldwell.
        On August 8, 1912, in Knox Township, Columbiana County, he married
Miss Esther S. Yaggi, whose parents, Christian and Lucinda (Hoffman) Yaggi,
now deceased, were prosperous farmers in that section. Mrs. Geiger finished
her education in Mount Union College. They have two children, Doris
Virginia and Martha Lynette.


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